HEAL’s Long Term Goal

To increase support for integrated public health and environmental conservation initiatives as intimately related, interdependent challenges. Such a cross-sectoral attitudinal change would ultimately help to improve public health outcomes, equity, and resilience for some of the world's poorest people, living in the world's most remote areas, while simultaneously conserving some of the most important natural landscapes and seascapes left on earth.

Current Events: Global sustainability challenges, from maintaining biodiversity to providing clean air and water, are closely interconnected yet often separately studied and managed. Systems integration—holistic approaches to integrating various components of coupled human and natural systems—is critical to understand socioeconomic and environmental interconnections and to create sustainability solutions....